Friday, July 16, 2010

Spies Like That

Thomas Friedman has a take on the spy swap: "The good news is that someone still wants to spy on us. The bad news is that it’s the Russians." The diatribe is funny at times, but sort of misses the point. You spy on those you want to catch up with or keep up with. And how you go about it is sometimes a better reflection of your situation than that of your target.

I find the most interesting aspect of this that it the first time we have swapped Russians for Russians. Swapping 10 spies who did Russia no good for 4 Russians who did Russia no harm.

Posted by editor at 4:51 AM

1 comments:

Mark said...

In the movies, or perhaps even in reality if the FSB is as devilishly good as its reputation bespeaks, the real spies would be the Russians who were traded back to the west, to a red-carpet welcome.

That's the way I'd write it, if I were a conspiracy-thriller novelist.

11:50 PM

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